Hospitals account for about 40% of all healthcare expenditure in high-income countries and play a central role in healthcare provision. The ways in which they are paid, therefore, has major implications for the care they provide. However, our knowledge about reforms that have been made to the...

Part i: Understanding the notion of central bank digital currency -- Chapter 1: Terminology and motives for central bank digital currency -- Chapter 2: Technical design -- Part ii: Analysing the legal aspects of central bank digital currency -- Chapter 3: Monetary constitutional law -- Chapter...